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How to Make HCI Work Like the Cloud
Increasingly, organizations are looking to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to simplify their on-premises architectures to make them more cloud-like. Obvious considerations for IT professionals looking to move to HCI are Cisco HyperFlex, Dell EMC, Nutanix, and VMware HCI. This writeup is…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LUN, Redundancy, VM, VSAN
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Requirements for Unstructured Data at Petabyte Scale
Unstructured data is hard to manage. When an organization’s unstructured data assets cross the petabyte threshold, though, controlling the data set brings on an entirely new set of challenges. Most legacy network-attached storage (NAS) systems struggle to manage 100 terabyte…
How Does Your 2020 DR Plan Need to Change?
With each passing year, disaster recovery changes. Most of the time, those changes relate to faster and faster recoveries, as well as protection from net threats like ransomware. In 2020 the pressure to recover even faster remains critical, but there…
Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Commvault, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Ransomware, RTO
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Purpose-Built Backup for Unstructured Data
Unstructured data has grown dramatically in terms of total capacity, the number of files, and criticality to the organization. Home directories now represent the bulk of the organization’s creative output, and losing or not being able to find that data…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Cloud, NAS, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Disaster Recovery Workshop: Dealing with New Requirements, Expectations, and Threats
Disaster Recovery (DR) is changing, and DR plans need to change with it. Legislative bodies want companies to not only prove their ability to recover from a disaster, but they have specific guidelines as to how long that effort can…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Cyber Security, Disaster recovery, dr, ML, Ransomware, Software Defined, VM
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Overcoming HCI Transition Problems
As they consider a potential transition to a hyperconverged architecture (HCI), organizations need to decide how to migrate data to the HCI platform. They also need to decide what to do with their legacy storage infrastructure that still will be…
Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Is Your Storage Architecture Ready for the Coming AI Wave?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that can apply to various computing tasks, including machine learning, deep learning, and big data analytics. Many AI projects are in a proof of concept stage, but CIOs and IT Managers need to…
Understanding the IO Needs of Edge Computing
Edge computing architectures typically consists of an array of IoT sensors that are collecting data in realtime which then send data to an edge data center for additional processing. Eventually, much of the collected data ends up in a public…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell PowerEdge, DRAM, Edge Computing, HDD, IOPS, IoT, Kingston Technology, Latency, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, SATA, SSD
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Integrating On-Premises SDN with Cloud VPC
One of the best examples of software defined networking (SDN) in action is in the cloud. When organizations use compute and storage resources from Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds they don’t get to go into those data centers and configure…
Tagged with: Analytics, Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, SDN
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